Ethan Lipton: We Are Your Robots | Creative Capital Project
Learn more about We Are Your Robots, by artist Ethan Lipton, Creative Capital Grantee 2023.
We Are Your Robots is a show Ethan Lipton is creating with his band, Ethan Lipton & His Orchestra and the director Leigh Silverman. In this piece Lipton’s bandmates of 17 years (Eben Levy on guitar, Vito Dieterle on saxophone, and Ian Riggs on bass) and Lipton play robots who look and sound just like them. They’ve come to the theater for a demonstration arranged by their engineers to answer the question, “What do humans want from their machines?” As narrator, Lipton’s character will try to gain the audience’s trust, something all machines must do. He will try to prove to the audience that his robot band possesses intelligence and consciousness, that they’re reliable, and that they won’t hurt the audience or steal their jobs. The piece will explore brain mapping, violence, caretaking, sex, and many other issues related to artificial intelligence, robotics, and humanity. The robots will play with the concept of the singularity, a theory that says machines and humans will someday occupy a single physical form. Ultimately, a thornier question will trump the one that begins the show: “What do humans want for themselves?” Read more: https://creative-capital.org/projects...
This video was originally presented at the 2023 Creative Capital Carnival—an artist gathering for discovering grantee projects-in-progress, meeting with industry experts, building community, and celebrating artists.
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